Jeweler&#39;s assembling-machine.



F. 0. HARRIS. JEWELERS ASSEMBLING MACHINE. I APPLICATION FILED DBO. 23, 1913.

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FREDERICK O. HARRIS, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOR TOTI-IE BRASSLER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

JEWELERS ASSEMBLING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 23, 1913.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914. Serial No. 808,328.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FREDERICK O. HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jewelers Assembling-lifachines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention has reference, generally, to improvements in jewelers assembling machines; and the invention relates, more articularly, to a novel, simple and efficient machine for assembling the parts .of flexible stock and settings which are adapted for use in the manufacture of bracelets,

neck-ornaments, and other similar articles of jewelry.

The invention has for its principal object to provide a simple and easily operated machine whereby the separate detail parts of flexible stock and settings for ewelry may be brought together and assembled in proper cooperating relation in the course of the manufacture of various articles of jewelry of which said flexible stock and settings form the essential part.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following de tailed description of the invention.

The invention consists, primarily, in the novel construction of assembling machine hereinafter more fully set forth; and, furthermore, this invention consists in the vari ous arrangements and combinations of the several parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of this specification. The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the novel construction of assembling machine, made according to and embodying the principles of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section of the same, taken on line 33 in upon suitable standards or legs 2.

said Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the anvil of said machine equipped with its guardplates, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of sa d anvil with said guard-plates removed; Fig. 6 is a detail longitudinal vertical section, taken on line 66 in said Fig. 1, the same being drawn on an enlarged scale, said view illustrating the first assembling operation; and Fig. 7 is a view similar to that shown in said Fig. 6, but illustrating the second assembling operation.

Similar characters of reference are em ployed in all of the hereinabove described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference character 1 indicates the base-plate of the machine, the same being supported Said base-plate 1 is provided in its upper surface with a longitudinal receiving-groove or channel 3, adapted to receive an interchangeable and detachable anvil 4, and also with a second longitudinal receiving-groove or channel 5, in which are slidably mounted a pair of carrier-members 6. Detachably connected with the forward marginal edge of said base-plate 1, by any suitable fastening means, is a longitudinally extending trough r receptacle 7 adapted to serve as a con t ainer of the parts of the flexible stock and settings which are to be assembled with the aid and by the operation of the assemblingmachine. The said anvil 4 comprises a longitudinally extending body, the upper surface of which is provided with a longitudinal groove or channel 8. Said anvil is fitted into said receiving-groove or channel 3 of said base-plate 1, and is retained therein against longitudinal movement by means of a stop-pin 9, which is secured to and which projects from the bottom surface of said anvil, said stop-pin 9 being received in a socket, 10, provided for the purpose at a suit-able location in the bottom of said receivinggroove or channel 3. Said anvil t is retained against removal from said receiving-groove or channel 3, bymeans of a fastening screw 11 which screws into said base-plate 1, said anvil being further provided with a countersunk-opening 12 in which the head 13 of said screw is contained, so that the latter is normally positioned beneath the level of the bottom of said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of said anvil.

Of course, any other convenient means may be used for holding said anvil in said receiving-groove or channel 3, other than the said screw 11 shown in the drawings and above described, without departing from the scope of the present invention. Secured upon the upper surface of said anvil, so as to extend across said longitudinal groove or channel 8 is a guard-plate 14, the same being provided upon its opposite longitudinal marginal edges with notches 15 adapted to straddle the shanks of fastening-screws 16, which are used to retain said guard-plate in place. Said notches 15 being so disposed as to permit said guard-plate to be twisted out of engagement with said screws 16, when the latter are loosened, so that the said guard-plate may be removed without entirely removing said fastening screws. Said guard-plate 14 is provided with a gageopening 17, the same being located preferably at the inner end of said plate; Said gage-opening providing access tosaid longitudinal groove or channel 8. The forward marginal edge of said guard-plate may be provided with a transverse cutaway portion or slot 18 which communicates with said gage-opening. Said guard-plate is also preferably provided with longitudinally extending narrow slits 19 and 20, through which the work is visible as it leaves registration with said gage-opening 17, and just before it'emerges from the end of said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of said anvil l. The reference character 21 indicates another guard-plate, which also extends across the upper surface of said anvil, so as to cover said longitudinal groove or channel 8. One end of said guard-plate 21 abuts against the inner end of said guard-plate 14s, and the opposite end of said guard-plate 21 is provided with elongated notches 22 located adjacent to the longitudinal marginal edges of the same, and adapted to straddle the shanks of fastening-screws 23. Said guardplate 21 is provided with a gage-opening 2st, and adjacent thereto with another larger gage-opening 25, both of the same giving access to said longitudinal groove or channel 8. Also secured upon the upper surface of said anvil so as to extend from the end of said gage-plate'2l to the end of said anvil 4 is a cover-plate 26, the same being secured in place by means of fasteningscrews 27, or any other convenient fastening means. Said coverpla te 26 is provided with an opening 28 which registers with and gives access to said counter-sunk opening 12 with which said anvil a is provided. Pivotally secured to a convenient portion of said base-plate 1 is the fulcrum end. 29 of a lever-member 30. Pivotally connected with said lever1ne1nber 30, by means of its forked or bifurcated end 7 31 is a feed-plunger 32, the free end of the same entering and riding in said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of sand anvil 4:.

Connected with the adjacent end of said anvil 4, or to some convenient point on the end of said base-plate 1, is an adjustable stopstud 33, preferably in the form of a screwthreaded stud, the same being adapted to limit the inward swing of said lever-member 30, and consequently the feeding movement of said feed-plunger 32. A spring-member 30 connected with said lever-member 30 tends to return the same and said feedplunger to normal initial position after operating the same.

Each carrier-member 6 is provided with forwardly projecting supporting-member 34;, the same being so disposed as to overhang said anvil 4:, each supporting-membcr 34 having avertical guide-opening 35, which registers above said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of said anvil 4t. Each supporting member 3a is further provided with a vertical socket 36, the same registering parallel with said guide-opening Slidably disposed in the guide-opening of one of said supporting-members 3-1 is a vertically movable punch-member 37, the lower end of which provides a link-punch 38, the center of which is hollowed out to form a chamber 39. Slidably disposed in the guide-opening 35 of the other of said supporting-members 34 is a vertically movable punch-member 40, the lower end of which provides a back-plate punch ll. Slidably disposed in each vertical-socket 36 is a guide-plunger 42, the outwardly projecting end of which is connected with the upper end of the re spective punch-members 37 and 40 by means of a connecting-bar 43. Arranged in the bottoms of said vertical sockets 36 are coilsprings 4L4: which bear against the inner ends of said guide-plungers L2 tending to push the same upward, and to maintain the same in said upwardly moved position, and at the same time serving to maintain said respective punch-members in a normal upwardly moved position in their respective guideopenings 35, since said punclrmembers are respectively connected with said guideplungers a2. Connected with each carriermember 6 is a fulcrum-post 4-5, the same being located rearwardly of said supportingmembers 34-. Pivotally connected with each fulcrum-post is a lever-arm l6 provided at its free end with a handle-portion 4L7. Said respective lever-arms 46 are adapted to be swung downwardly upon the upper ends or heads of said respective punch-members, and by exerting a downward pressure upon said lever-arms the same thereby cause a downward movement of said respective punch-members in their guide-openings, said punch-members being returned to their now mal upwardly moved positions by said coilsprings L4, as above indicated, when the pressure of said lever-arms is removed. Each carrier-member 6 is provided with a Ill;

longitudinally extending slot or opening 48, through which pass the fastening screws 49, whereby said carrier-members are secured in fixed relation to said base-plate 1, the said slots or openings 18 permitting the required adjusting movement of said carrier-members in the receiving groove or channel 5, whereby the same are so positioned that their respective punch-members will register with, so as to pass through when downwardly moved, said respective gage-openings 17 and 2a of said guard-plates, and thereby pass into operating contact with the work held in said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of said anvil 4:.

The flexible stock which the above de scribed machine is adapted to operate upon for the purpose of properly assembling its several parts together, comprises a box-like body member 50 having 111 its end walls cutaway portions adapted to receive a rectangular link-member 51, which is adapted to con nect two of said box-like body members together, and a back-plate 52 which is adapted to dovetail with the upper marginal edges of said box-like body 50 and to extend over said link-members 51, thereby retaining the same in their connected relation with said body-members 50. A plurality of said boxlike members 50 are thus interconnected by said link-members 51 to produce a long flexible strip or stock, which may be provided with settings for precious stones, and which may be employed in the manufacture of various articles of jewelry.

The operation and use of the novel assembling machine in properly associating together the above enumerated detail parts of said flexible stock is as follows :The said trough or receptacle 7 contains the loose or unconnected parts 50, 51 and 52 of said flexible stock, so that the same are ready to the hand of the operator of the machine. First the operator takes up a box-like body-member 50 and passes the same through said opening 25, so that the same enters and lies in said longitudinal groove or channel 8 of said anvil 1 and in front of said feed-plunger 32. The lever-member 30 is now moved inwardly by the operator, which causes the feed-plunger to move forwardly in said groove or channel 8. the feed-plunger returning to initial position after its stroke has been completed. The operator now takes up another body-member 50 and inserts the same through said gage-opening 25 and the above feeding operation is repeated. The two body-portions 50 are carried by these operations into such a position within said groove or channel 8 as to lie with their adjacent or meeting ends registered directly beneath said gage opening 2 The operator then takes up a link-member 51, and allows the same to drop through said gage-opening 24-, whereupon the same properly registers with the cutaway portions of said adjacent walls of said body-members Now the operator swings downwardly the lever-arm 16 which operates the punchmember 37, which is thereby caused to descend, so that its link-punch 38 passes through said gage-opening 24: and engages said link-member 51, thereby forcing the same firmly and securely in its seated connection with the walls of said respective body-member 50, the operation immediately above described, being illustrated, more particularly, in Fig. 6 of the accompanying drawings.

In so operating the machine the feedplunger 30 carries or pushes forward, in a train, the interconnected body-members 50, until the first introduced body-member is registered beneath the gage-opening 17, whereupon the operator picks up a backplate 52, and pushing the same through the transverse cutaway portion or slot 18, registers the same with said gage-opening 17 so that said baclcplate 52 falls therethrough in proper registration with said body-member 5O lying beneath said gage-opening 17. Now the operator swings downwardly the leverarm #16 which operates the punch-member to, which is thereby caused to descend, so that its back-plate punch 4:1 passes through said gage-opening l7 and engages said backplate 52, thereby forcing the same firmly into its proper dovetailed engagement with said body-member 50, and thus completing that portion of the assembling operations. Such operation being more particularly illustrated in 7 of the accompanying drawings. All of the above operations are repeated by the operator until the end of said flexible stock emerges from the end of said groove or channel 8 of the anvil 4. Generally as the stock thus emerges from the anvil, the same is wound with wire to maintain the parts against separation from their assembled relation, preparatory to washing said back-plates with solder to secure the same in their assembled relation with said body-members, but, of course, it will also be understood that said back-plates and body members may be so constructed as to clench together in interlocked relation under the pressure of said back-plate punch, when such a construction is desired. The assembling operations above described maybe repeated ad Zz'bitzmt until the desired length of flexible stock is obtained. It will also be understood that the detail parts of the said flexible stock are very small and very diflicult to handle without the aid of the mechanical means provided by my present invention, whereby an accurate, quick and proper assemblage of the parts may be easily attained.

It will also be understood that the said anvil and the respective punch-members are made to be detachable and interchangeable, so that their respective guard-plates, gageopening, grooves or channels 8, and punch ends, may be altered toaccommodate the size of stock desired, which may be of various sizes and design. And to this end also said carrier-members 6-, are mounted so as to be adjustable with relation to said baseplate, whereby the same may be positioned to register their respective punch-members with the gage-openings, and to space the same from each other in correspondence with the desired distance of feeding movement. Said feed-plunger 32 and its operating lever member 30, are in like manner, regulatable as to distance of stroke by the adjustable stop-member cooperating with said lever-member.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the foregoing specification, and as defined in the claims appended thereto. Hence, I do not limit my invention to the eXact arrangements and combinations of the devices and parts as described in the said specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim 1. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil mounted thereon and provided with means for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, punch-members, carriermembers adjustably secured to said baseplate and provided with means for support ing said punch-members above said anvil, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with the work, means for returning said punch-members to normal initial position, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members.

2. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil, means for detachably securing said anvil upon said base-plate, means connected with said anvil for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil having gageopenings through which the work is passed to said supporting and guiding means, punchmembers, means for supporting said punchmembers above said anvil, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with the work, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members.

3. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil, means for detachably securing said anvil upon said base-plate, means connected with said anvil for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil having gage-openings through which the work is passed to said supporting and guiding means, punch-members, carrier-members adjustably secured to said base-plate and provided with means for supporting said punch-members above said anvil, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with the work, means for returning said punch-members to normal initial position, and means for feed ing said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members.

41-. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil, means for detachably securing said anvil upon said base-plate, means connected with said anvil for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil having gage-openings through which the work is passed to said supporting and guiding means, punch-menibers, carrier-members adjustably secured to said base-plate and provided with means for supporting said punch-members above said anvil, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with the work, means for returning said punch-members to normal initial position, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members, comprising a feed-plunger sliolably associated with said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said base-plate, said feed-plunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed plunger.

5. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported baseplate, an anvil pro vided with means for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, punch members, means for supporting said punchmembers, means for carrying said punchmembers into operative contact with the work, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punchanembers, comprising a feedplunger slidably associated with said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said base-plate, said feedplunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed plunger.

6. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil mounted thereon and provided with means for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, punch-members, carriermembers adjustably secured to said baseplate and provided with means for supporting said punch-members above said anvil, means for carrying said puncl1-1nembers iss into operative contact with the work, means for returning said punch-members to normal initial position, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members, comprising a feed-plunger slidably associated with said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said baseplate, said feed-plunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed-plunger.

7. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate, an anvil, means for detachably securing said anvil upon said base-plate, means connected with said anvil for supporting and guiding the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil having gage-openings through which the work is passed to said supporting and guiding means, punch-members, means for supporting said punch-members above said anvil, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with the work, and means for feeding said work along said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members, comprising a feed-plunger slidably associated with said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said base-plate, said feed-plunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed-plunger.

8. In a device of the kind described, asuitably supported base-plate having a receiving groove 3 and a receiving groove 5, an anvil secured within said receiving groove 3, said anvil being provided in its upper surface with a longitudinal channel adapted to receive and guide the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil so as to extend over said channel thereof, said guard-plates having gage-openings through which the work is deposited within said channel, a pair of carrier-members adjustably mounted in said receivinggroove 5, each carrier-member having an over-hanging supporting-member provided with a vertical receiving-opening, punchmembers slidably disposed in said receiving openings, said punch-members being registered over certain of said gage-openings through which they pass into operative contact with said work, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with said work, and means for feeding said work through said channel of said anvil and in registration between said punch-members.

9. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate having a receiving groove 3 and a receiving groove 5, an anvil secured within said receiving groove 3, said anvil being provided in its upper surface with a longitudinal channel adapted to receive and guide the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil so as to extend over said channel thereof, said guard-plates having gage-openings through which the work is deposited within said channel, a pair of carrienmembers adjustably mounted in said receiving groove 5, each carrier-member having an over-hanging supporting-member provided with a vertical receiving-opening, punchmembers slidably disposed in said receiving openings, said punch-members being registered over certain of said gage-openings through which they pass into operative contact with said work, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with said work, means for returning said punchmembers to normal initial posit-ion, and means for feeding said work through said channel of said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members.

10. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate having a receiving groove 3 and a receiving groove 5, an anvil secured within said receiving groove 3, said anvil being provided in its upper surface with a longitudinal channel adapted to receive and guide the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil so as to extend over said channel thereof, said guard-plates having gage-openings through which the work is deposited within said channel, a pair of carrier-members adjustably mounted in said receivinggroove 5, each carrier-member having an over-hanging supporting-member provided with a vertical receiving-opening, punchmembers slidably disposed in said receiving openings, said punch-members being registered over certain of said gage-openings through which they pass into operative contact with said work, means for carrying said punch-members into operative contact with said work, means for returning said punch-members to normal initial position, and means for feeding said work through said channel of said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members, comprising a feed-plunger slidably disposed in said channel of said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said base-plate, said feed-plunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed-plunger.

11. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate having a receiving groove 3 and a receiving groove 5, an anvil secured within said receiving groove 3, said anvil being provided in its upper surface with a longitudinal channel adapted to receive and guide the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil so as to extend over said channel thereof, said guard-plates having gage openings through which the work is deposited within said channel, a pair of carrier-members adjustably mounted in said receiving-groove 5, each carrier-member having an over-hanging supporting-member provided with a vertical receiving-opening, punch-members slidably disposed in said receiving-openings, said punch-members being registered over certain of said gage-openings through which they pass into operative contact with said Work, fulcrumposts carried by each carrier-member, leverarms pivoted to said fulcrum-posts and adapted to be moved into contact with said punch-members to cause an operative downward stroke of the same, means for return ing said punch-members to their normal positions, and means for feeding said work through said channel of said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members.

12. In a device of the kind described, a suitably supported base-plate having a receiving groove 8 and a receiving groove 5, an anvil secured within said receiving groove 3, said anvil being provided in its upper surface With a longitudinal channel adapted to receive and guide the work to be operated upon, guard-plates connected with said anvil so as to extend over said channel thereof, said guard-plates having gage-openings through which the Work is deposited within said channel, a pair of carrier-members adjustably mounted in said receiving-groove 0, each earriermember having an over-hanging supporting-me1nber provided with a vertical receiving-opening, punch-members slidably disposed in said receiving-openings, said puneh-n'ien'ibers being registered over certain of said gage-openings through which they pass into operative contact with said work, fuloruuv posts carried by each carrier-member, leverarms pivoted to said fulcrum-posts and adapted to be moved into contact with said punchmembers to cause an operative downward stroke of the same, means for returning said punch-members to their normal positions, and means for feeding said work through said channel of said anvil and in registration beneath said punch-members, comprising a feed-plunger slidably disposed in said channel of said anvil, a lever-member pivotally connected with said base-plate, said feed-plunger being connected with said lever-member, and means for limiting the feeding movement of said feed-plunger.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 22nd day of December, 1913.

FREDERICK O. HARRIS. lVitnesses FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL, FREDK. H. V. F RAENTZEL.

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